Build not starting for project

Chaim Eliyah

10 May, 2019 05:30 AM

I am trying to implement an appveyor.yml for my repository (which is a fork). I see a bunch of stuff online about webhooks but it's all old. The current documentation seems to indicate that I _should_ be able to build from a branch, and I've got the build settings currently set to "all branches." Here is the project's repo:

So, I got a build to happen by setting the default branch to the one I wanted to build and triggering it manually. Now it just stops on the wrong step. It says it is executing the before_build and build_script steps but they are greyed out and it doesn't actually do anything.

As you seem to have discovered, the default branch is what is used when a build is triggered manually through the UI.
If you push to a branch that has a yml config file the UI settings will be mostly* ignored.
As for build pipeline. Unless you have build: off set in your yaml, those steps should both run.

Sure, but don't you think it's kind of a problem that if the default branch doesn't contain the appveyor.yml that the build just doesn't trigger at all?

Also, I just pushed several commits at once and the build isn't triggering at all, for any of the commits. So far my impression is that this is very buggy. I can try another manual build but how many manual builds am I going to have to do? Is this a regular thing?